
Qin Shi Huang (259 BC – 210 BC) was the founder of the Qin dynasty and was the first emperor of a unified China. He
became Zheng, the King of Qin when he was thirteen, then China's first emperor
when he was 38 after the Qin had conquered all of the other Warring States and
unified all of China in 221 BC. He ruled
as First Emperor of the Qin dynasty from
220 to 210 BC. During his reign, his
generals greatly expanded the size of the Chinese state: campaigns south of Chu
permanently added the Yue lands of Hunan and Guangdong to the Chinese cultural
orbit.
I have posted on this
earlier too……. the culture of statues has a long history and is
not new to Tamilnadu alone – and there have been some clashes arising out of
issues involving statues, it is another colonial vestige. At important
road junctions, at landmark buildings – we have statues of
leaders and others lying uncared for in a state of neglect.
There are statues in a row in the Marina beach with bird droppings
and dirty looks. In the northern State, one CM went berserk installing
statues of party symbol and self and the opposition leader appealed to the
Centre not to release funds to State fearing that they would create more
statues. Originally, statues were installed to propagate the memory of great
leaders, poets and visionaries of the Society and even in a place where
rationalists question religion, there arose very many statues to leaders of
importance. It was to instill in upcoming generations some knowledge and
recalling of the glorious acts of the erstwhile leaders. It is unfortunate that
instead of learning, sometimes they become the reason for public
disturbance. Statues – installing them is another vestige of colonial rule.
If statues are symbols –
felling them are symbolisms !!!.... ‘Ozymandias’ is a sonnet written by the English romantic poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley. In antiquity,
Ozymandias was an alternative name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II. The 7.25-ton fragment of the statue's head
and torso had been removed in 1816 from the mortuary temple of Ramesses at
Thebes by the Italian adventurer Giovanni Battista Belzoni. Shelley wrote the poem in friendly
competition with his friend and fellow poet Horace Smith who also wrote a
sonnet on the topic. Both poems explore the fate of history and the ravages of
time—that all prominent men and the empires they build are impermanent and
their legacies fated to decay and oblivion.
MailOnline
reports that the acclaimed world's
largest statue of China's first emperor toppled as a strong gale-force wind hit
east China last Friday. The report states that the statue of Qin Shi Huang was detached from the
pedestal and lifted in mid-air before hitting the floor some 33 feet away head
first. There were no injuries reported in the incident.
Web users hinted
the incident could be an advice to President Xi on his recent decision to rule
for life. According to Central Chinese Television, the 62-foot-tall statue of
Emperor Qin, also known as the First Emperor of China, collapsed at Qin Shi
Huang Scenic Park in Binzhou, Shandong Province on April 6. The 'world's
largest' Emperor Qin statue, weighs six tonnes, fell to the ground head first
and the copper beads from the headpiece scattered around. The massive statue
was hit with gusts reaching 46 miles per hour, of level 8 on Beaufort scale,
stated in the report. The statue was erected 13 years ago as the scenic park
opened in September 26, 2005.
Staff members
called a forklift and a crane truck to remove the statue in the afternoon. Web
users commented on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, that the incident
could be a warning to President Xi's recent decision to abolish presidential
term limits. 'Perhaps Emperor Qin wants to tell us something about
dictatorship!' said one while the other stated that - 'We should learn from our
history, right?' However, some of the comments were filtered and not allowed to
show online.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
9th Apr
2018.
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